My great great grandfather was governor of the Buenos Aires.
[QUOTE=rathat48;22151447]I just found a family tree that goes back to my great great great great grandfather.[/QUOTE]
Do tell.
My grandparents have already passed, but I think my paternal great grandfather was a Romanian millionaire, but the state took almost all of it away. Bloody communism.
My grandmother is awesome,
She watches football and hockey, her favourite team is Barcelona.
It's awesome to discuss football with your grandmother.
[QUOTE=FPChris;22151546]My grandmother is awesome,
She watches football and hockey, her favourite team is Barcelona.
It's awesome to discuss football with your grandmother.[/QUOTE]
Bet she's pissed at Jose possibly moving to Real then.
my great grandma and grandpa are both 91, married for 69 years
My great grandpa introduced air conditioning and cooling systems to the soviet union.
Also Georgy Sviridov stayed in his estate for a while, while he was composing The Snowstorm.
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yes it's the fucking Metal Gear Solid theme
[QUOTE=Stupideye;22149851]My Grandpa lived in Nazi Germany and when he was about 16 he was forced to join the army due to lack of men. He used a Panzerfaust from what I've heard from various family members. Even to the day he died he had a great respect for Hitler and had a strong dislike to Jewish people. When he met my dad (my dad is Metis and looks native) he asked him "where's your bow and arrow?".[b] He really grew to love my dad like a son.[/b] My uncle was also in the army in Nazi Germany and was captured by the Russians.
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My Grandpa on the other side of the family fought in WW2 on the Canadian side, funny how that works.[/QUOTE]
Your dad was your grandfathers son.
My grandpa was a quite poor guy who lived in a poor small village. They had enough food and stuff but were really not modern. When my dad was born, he smoked a lot. Now he's an old (??) guy who is over protective of his and her grandchildren and children.
He's a nice guy, but a bit annoying.
My grandpa was a lumberjack.
My other grandpa was an airplane repair contractor, who sold his business.
My Grandfather was apparently a bodyguard to a British spy, my other Grandfather fought in India.
And my Grandmother nearly became a board member of some big company, but couldn't in the end because she was a women, she was also a stenographer.
My granddad on one side of my family was a Coal Miner, during Thatcher's reign of terror here in the UK. My gran worked in a factory making radios and microwaves and stuff. They both took part in a bunch of protests to do with the miner's strike. When the mines shut down, my grandad joined Concorde and helped put together their planes, and once got arrested for taking junk plane parts home (the police thought he was a terrorist; he made clocks out of the parts :v:). Tom Jones (famous singer) also owes my grandad a pint.
On the other side of the family, my grandparents did a fuckload of traveling. They've been on every continent multiple times, I know that. Hell, they were like 70 when they went on an Antarctic expedition :v: my grandad was a conscripted medical officer in WWII, he never fought or anything (for which he's glad). Noo clue what my grandma did, she's very quiet about her past before she met my grandad, think there was some conspiratory love story behind that...
Yeah, grandparents always have interesting stories to tell :keke:
My Grandpa was an American soldier in World War 2 in the red ball express and he drove around in a deuce and a half giving supplies, and got to go to a concentration camp before it was liberated and talked to the guy that was putting them in the oven, and the guy that was about to be put into the oven. I got a picture somewhere.
Him and his friends also looted a bunch of stores in Europe and buried it. The loot includes a very expensive car. So there's a bunch of loot and a car buried somewhere in Europe.
My grandpa served for Germany in WW2, was sent to siberia after it and almost shat his pants when he got cought and was controlled just to remember that he was hiding a grenade in his sock because he got so used to the feeling.
Then later was a Russian/Math teacher for the rest of his life.
My grandpa was the coach of the national wrestling team of Bulgaria during some of the 60's and 70's. His athletes won multiple medals (gold, silver, bronze) at the olympics and he has also trained multiple world/european champions. Showed me his drawer full of medals and goddam were they nice.
My grandpa died in Auschwitz '43.
He died when a fellow officer fell on him.
My grandpa was the intelligence back in nam.
Both of my granddads fought and died as romanian soldiers against Germany's enemies.1 died in the russian prisons in the Urals since he was caught at Odessa, and the other was massacred with the others at Stalingrad.
Though I read some letters from my grandpa who died in prison that he wrote to my grandma. He said that it was horrible there, the food was mostly bread, it was cold as hell, he was very depressed since he saw his two best friends and village neighbors ravaged by artillery at Odessa, and that he still loved her and probably won't come back,and he's sad that he can't see his grandson (not me, my older brother).
The other one at Stalingrad didn't send much letters, the ones he sent were only through the travel to the front. He mostly said things like the germans weakened the russians so he will be safe and even kill some of them, he loves her, the morale of the troops is pretty high and because the troops sent there are a lot they will win, he and his friends he made say that they will party a lot and they will keep contact when they'll come back and other things like that. Seems things didn't go so well for him. From what I've heard he was killed in an ambush.
Sorry none of them survived,cause of that I don't have much to tell about their life after and in the war. None of my great grandparents live also so again I can't say anything.
My Grandfather flew P-38 Lightnings.
My grandfather (he isn't really my grandfather, I guess he is my dad's stepdad.) served as a plane mechanic in WW2. After the was he went and became a boxer. He won the golden glove, yet he never really talks about it. He has Alzheimers now, kind of a bummer.
My great grandfather got a huge hunk of metal from a jet stuck in his head and lived.
That's all that I really know that's interesting. :frown:
[QUOTE=CackaDeTaros;22152292]Your dad was your grandfathers son.[/QUOTE]
I was talking about my grandpa on my mom's side of the family, he said that to my dad when he met him (was not related to him at the time).
I forgot to post this earlier but from what my dad has told me about my grandpa on his side of the family did some pretty horrible stuff in WW2. From what I know he was sent into towns and villages in countries controlled by Germany in a "hit squad" and was told to kill everyone inside of the towns including civilians (why he had to do this, I do not know). After the war he was never the same and became an alcoholic which caused him to die when my dad was young.
I know that my great grandfather on my mom's side after serving in the Qing Empire army was the ambassador from the Republic of China to the US starting in 1912 to probably when Yuan came into power in China.
I wonder if the American national archives would have any information on foreign ambassadors...
My paternal grandfather was a National Revolutionary Army officer during the Second Sino-Japanese War. He found his way to Hong Kong at the start of the civil war that followed after.
Great grandpa was a nazi ss.
Grandpa hunted elephants and took their tusks I still have them and was an olympic wrestling champion. He's on wikipedia.:smile:
My great grandfather fought in WW2, and my great uncle in WW1
[QUOTE=Tac Error;22154531]I know that my great grandfather on my mom's side after serving in the Qing Empire army was the ambassador from the Republic of China to the US starting in 1912 to probably when Yuan came into power in China.
I wonder if the American national archives would have any information on foreign ambassadors...[/QUOTE]
cool
My great grandfather (on my father's side) used to walk to church (in Poland) in his bare feet so he wouldn't ruin his shoes, came to america all alone at age 15, fought in the first world war, and owned a bar for the rest of his life. He died at 95.
My grandfather was killed while touring Europe during WWII.
My Grandpa from my dads side was a fire chief :D
[QUOTE=Swebonny;22150643]Bah it kinda sucks knowing that when you grow up the thing you are going to tell your grandchildren are.
"Yeah I sat in front of the computer 6 hours a day..."[/QUOTE]
Sad because it's so fucking true.
We are a French family, so I call my great grandmother memè, and my great grandfather pepè. My pepè died after a few months when I was born, he served in WWII in the US Navy and US Army, but my memè is 82 years old and one of the most interesting people I have met in my life, she told me during the great depression her mother would hand out food to people who came to the house for it. The cool thing is I can go over her house within 1 minute because she lives on my street, just like her son, my grandfather whom I call pepe, my pepe is married to my grandmother, meme. My pepe is really cool and is about 62 years old, he taught me how to shoot and fish ect.(this is all on my mothers side by the way)
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